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The 
Animals of 
lowstone Park is ihe intimate aeeaaineakee 
tourists make with the wild animals. The 
rules for the protection of animals, provided 
by a kindly Government, forbid hunting, 
killing, capturing or wounding any bird or 
wild Aneel except when necessary to prevent them from 
destroying life. Asa result guns, traps and firearms are per- 
mitted in the Park only on the written permission of the. 
superintendent. The 
animals seem to 
understand this, for 
which reason this is 
one place in the 
world where man 
and beast seem to 
live in harmony. 
Antelopes, deer, elk, 
buffalo and bears are 
free to wander as 
they please, unre- 
stricted by fear of 
man. Not even 
dogs disturb their 
freedom, for none 
are kept except at 
the hotels, and these 
are so rare that the 
horses of the trans- 
portation company have been known to shy at the sight of 
them. 
The bears, in particular, seem to recognize the fact that 
there is no danger, and great and many are the bear stories 
told by the tourists who delight in watching them. Back in 
the woods, a short distance from the hotels and camps, dwell 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Met hed 2S i ES 
Feeding Time 
June, 1906 
Yellowstone 
Park 
By Katherine Louise Smith 
Mr. and Mrs. Bruin and their progeny. But they have 
learned where delicacies abound and once in so often sally 
forth to obtain them. At each hotel and lunch station the 
refuse from the table is deposited in piles at a distance from 
the buildings or tents, and here the bears find a feast await- 
ing them. Seats are erected a short distance away, and here 
one may sit, camera in hand, and watch the bears devour 
their meal while the little bears eat and scramble and growl. 
At exactly five-thirty P. M., as indicated by the hotel clock 
and the gnawing in 
Master Bear’s stom- 
ach, black, brown 
and perchance a sil- 
ver-tip or grizzly, 
troop down from 
their forest home. 
Not a soul disturbs 
their eating ihe 
soldier with firearms 
stands on guard, 
and the tourist holds 
his breath with ex- 
citement, for at any 
unusual movement 
the bears —amagy 
a Sica scamper off. 
The first bears 
seen by the tourist 
are at the Fountain 
House. Here an interesting group of big black animals 
troop down from the timber, sprawl over the empty cans 
and refuse and eat voraciously. Little do they suspect that 
they are taken by cameras in every attitude and that they 
posing for photographers who work as noiselessly as 
possible in order to retain the “sitters.” Last summer one 
